Finally I can now bring the project up to date after what has been a ridiculously exhausting culmination of the first complete exhibition of Cicatrix. I say complete as a much scaled-down version was shown at Wiltshire Council’s new flagship […]
The prizewinners of the third annual Lumen Prize international award for digital art have been announced.
It’s over a fortnight since we installed Child’s Play at Imperial War Museum North, and launched The Book of Debts VIII as part of the opening of the Asia Triennial. It was a very intense week but I began […]
I wrote this a couple of days ago, and have been wondering and pondering whether to post it. It seems a bit prophetic, rather than my usual “reaction+thoughts” type posts. In the end, it is exactly for that reason […]
A new report from the team behind Rebalancing our Cultural Capital claims that Arts Council England’s funding commitments for 2015-18 still overwhelmingly favour London.
Good things are happening in Cardiff’s visual arts scene, with an energy and momentum that can be seen in the current Cardiff Contemporary festival. But, argues former Artes Mundi director Ben Borthwick, there is much that needs to be done if the biennial event – and Wales’ contemporary art scene generally – is to really fulfil its potential.
This is a post which relates to the work I did in February 2014 on the 75th anniversary of La Retirada – the retreat from Spain at the fall of the Republic in 1939. It relates to Abuela’s (grandmother’s) improvised […]
I’ve enrolled!! A friend lent me some money (0% interest) to start the course, and now I am trying to raise the rest of the 1st year fees in a tiny bit over 2 weeks time – the grace period […]
Witch is having a slight rest while the publicity for our show is being printed.. but a fellow artist has contacted me to talk about art and us wonderful experienced wise older women and whether we can look at these […]
I wrote this for a-n: In keeping with the spirit of this year’s artist-led Bristol Biennial, on Sunday 28 September the city’s nomadic Hand in Glove project followed the 10-day festival with a special Interplay event exploring the question: What now, what […]
I wrote this for a-n: This weekend saw the Bristol Biennnial 2014 burst into life with a jam-packed 10-day programme that peppers the city with intriguing events in unusual spaces. Caves, Edwardian toilets, buses, fountains and an ordinary terraced house all […]
The end of the Surface Arts and Rumpueng Artspace Residency saw two more actions from Girl Gang Chiang Mai. We showed shoppers how to ride an escalator like a rainbow and how to pause time whilst camouflaging produce in a […]
My Art Licks: It’s been a busy time this past month, with singing rehearsals for Deptford X, daily secondary school viewings for next year – finding the ‘right’ fit for the next 7 years of her life is a big […]
The KickStarter campaign for my project with the Women’s Art Library in London is now live! From Absorb to Zoom: An Alphabet of Actions in the Women’s Art Library is a site-specific collaborative print installation I will create with the Women’s […]
My Deptford X, 1: Market Musical, Janette Parris, songs based on her conversations with Market stall holders and local shop-keepers. Janette wrote the songs based on that material (and she also created the Deptford X edition of her ARCH Comic […]
More beautiful objects from the archive
Discussing possible futures with ESOL women’s group at Govanhill Library We will see a return to more communal living, more community cafes, libraries will change their function and become places where meetings happen and people can find information of all […]
This latest work has grown out of my art that has essentially gone wrong. When tidying up my studio I came across a few medium sized blank canvases. In an ‘experimental, waste not, want not’ kind of mood, I spray […]
I’m thinking about the phrase ‘making an entrance’ – I think my artwork here in Trinity College’s reception is introducing itself quite quietly, but hopefully so as to point out the process and the means, rather than as a showy […]
Alongside the usual lively mix of keynote presentations, breakouts, study tours and knowledge exchanges, this year’s AD:UK Conference will include a new open forum strand – plus a-n will be providing crowd funding expertise through its Granted professional development programme.
The Willard Asylum suitcases https://m.roadtrippers.com/blog/peek-inside-the-400-abandoned-suitcases-discovered-in-the-willard-asylum are an inclusion to The Museum suggested by conceptual object artist Dawn Cole who works on WW2 http://dawncole.co.uk This is an incredible collection – apparently 400 suitcases of former patients of the asylum, found in […]
My MA revolves around what it is to be human and in particular, my very personal relationship to illness, disability and invisibility.
We were asked to detail our thoughts and ideas about our work in a blog to be validated by our tutors….so I did
